The begining of a seo seontest is always very interresting. It is all the more true for globalwarming awareness2007 with such a size and many competitors.

My first observation concern what we call in French the freshness bonus. It means that Google is helping the new websites by letting them rank well for a short period. Then when this period is ended they will rank at a normal or legitimate position. With the rules of the globalwarming awareness2007 contest (a domain name registred after the 15 of january) all websites are experiencing the freshness bonus on Google. That is why there is so much refresh on the top of the Google result. A good strategy may be to wait the end of the contest and launch a brand new website ? Wrong because at this time the keywords and the websites about will be more powerful and the freshness bonus i think will not be enough to get the top positions.